It was a long but not so strange trip indeed.
Started off with four days in northern Michigan, one of the most beautiful places in the world in the fall. I didn’t take many pictures because we used to live about 25 minutes from where we were staying between Burt Lake and Mullet Lake but take my word for it, it was gorgeous. My wife went with me which is a little unusual but it was a nice little mini-vacation for us.
We got back on Monday the 14th, I did some laundry and then rolled out early on the 15th to drive to Maine. We went to Letchworth State Park in New York, the “Grand Canyon of the East” and it is pretty remarkable.
We travelled as far as Schenectady, New York and crashed for the night in a less than awesome hotel and the next morning drove the rest of the way to Greenville, Maine on the shores of Moosehead Lake.
As an aside, I think it must be a state law in Maine that every business either has the word “Moose” in the business name or has a moose in their logo.
Thursday was an off day, so I puttered around town a little, read some and blogged a bit (always a pain in the ass when done on a laptop).
On Friday we drove to Acadia National Park. It isn’t that far away in terms of actual miles but getting around Maine unless you are on I-95 is a hassle so it took almost 3 hours to travel the 127 some miles to the visitor center.
Acadia is beautiful but it is one of the most visited parks in America so it was packed as the fall colors were near the peak.
I wouldn’t choose Acadia as a park to visit just because of the heavy traffic .
Saturday we stayed around town for the day and did some shopping before heading out to see if we could spot some moose. It wasn’t great timing as moose season was in full swing so I saw several dead moose but the live ones were spooked because of the hunters in the woods. We went to a place recommended by some banjo strummin’ locals, Spencer Pond, and it sure looked like somewhere you would see moose.
Alas we didn’t see any moose there but on the way back to the cabins we did have a bull moose run across the road in front of us so I count that as a success. Later we ate dinner in town where a man complimented my Amish passengers on their Halloween costumes only to realize that they were actual Amish, the guy was terribly embarrassed.
Sunday being Sunday they stayed at their cabin and I hung around my place until the evening when I went to nearby Lily Bay State Park to watch the sunset, a really pretty view of Moosehead Lake…
Sunset wasn’t great, the air was too clear and there were basically no clouds, but it was still a pretty peaceful time to relax and enjoy being outdoors. The thing about where we were in Maine is you drive past places like the videos above about every 20 minutes, lots of forests with occasional ponds/lakes and small mountains in the background. Away from the coast it is a very unspoiled wilderness in most places.
On Monday we went to Baxter State Park. BSP is home to Mount Katahdin, the tallest peak in Maine at a little over 5,200 feet and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
We hiked to a pair of waterfalls, confusingly called the Little And Big Niagara Falls.
Baxter is a beautiful park, very lightly visited compared to Acadia, and partly that is because it is a bitch to get to it. We had to drive on some of the worst dirt roads I have ever been on to get there and taking a different route back included twenty miles of slightly less awful dirt roads. They sure don’t make it easy to get to their parks.
Tuesday we left at 3:45 AM to drive the slightly more than 1,000 miles back. With a couple of brief stops we made it back home before 9 PM so just over 17 hours of total time, most of that driving and a lot of that driving across New York. It was pretty but after a couple of hours of endless forests it got old.
At my age I would say 17 hours of driving in one day is a bit over my maximum. I can do it now and then, and I really wanted to get home and not stay in a hotel again, but I wouldn’t want to do it very often.
I haven’t been in Maine for quite a while, we went there a few times when we lived in New Hampshire back in the late 1990s. One thing that was a little startling was the volume of political signs for both Trump and Harris in Michigan and Maine. As we live in Indiana, hardly a competitive state and I don’t think either candidate bothered to come here, we are a little insulated from the endless screaming on TV, radio and political signs. I expect more will show up in the next week for state and local races but apart from a few Trump signs you don’t really see many presidential candidate ads. Michigan was full of them and Maine probably doubly so, with northern Michigan heavily leaning toward Trump and Maine being pretty evenly split. I can’t say I am missing the wall to wall ads and candidate signs on every inch of grass along the road.
It also reminded me of just how beautiful so much of this once great country truly is and how much it infuriates me that people look at beautiful states like Maine and think they would benefit from dropping tens of thousands of low IQ “migrants” on them to wreck the place.
Anyway, I am glad to be home although I seem to have picked up a nasty cold with a really unpleasant cough, like coughing so hard I feel like I am going to puke. Looks like a good day to spend most of it in bed.
Maine is a beautiful state. I was privileged to spend the summer there after my junior year in college in ’79, working in Portland, living in Brunswick, sitting by the rocky shore (love the Atlantic) and eating lots of clams and lobster. And then a lovely week on Chebeague Island (no cars allowed) with friends when I returned from my first overseas posting in ’87. It is not the natural environment for Africans of any type. Back when I lived there, I saw none – and Old Orchard Beach was just a typically fun, kind of chintzy working class beach town with typical boardwalk, shops, and amusement rides. All White people in my memories. What’s been done to that state is deliberate and vicious demographic and cultural vandalism.
If you took a photo of Africans on aforementioned Atlantic coast it would be a Rocky Horror Picture Shore.
>people look at beautiful states like Maine and think they would benefit from dropping tens of thousands of low IQ “migrants” on them
I know some of the people involved in bringing vibrants to Maine. The ones I know are themselves from Pakistan, but high IQ and all STEM professionals. Their family was brought in by “a New York lawyer” almost three decades ago. (That’s not code. I don’t even know the guy’s name and have never met him. But I wouldn’t be surprised if, well, you know.) Anyway, the people of Maine treated these people quite well. They were so pleased they went about helping that NY lawyer bring other Muslim immigrants in. Which is how Lewiston-Auburn went from about 1% negroes to 10% (Somali) in the space of a few years.
I make a point of getting up to L-A at least yearly to see how things are going. Basically, not well. And needless to say, have had “discussions” with the people who assisted that New York lawyer. And after I deflated all the bullshit about how the Somalis have reinvigorated downtown L-A (tl;dr— they haven’t) sure enough, the “well, they’ve brought ethnic food” came out. It’s all so tiresome and predictable: New York lawyer, “ethnic restaurants”. Nothing was ever improved by adding Somalis.
Demographics of Maine, NH and VT were all >95% white last time I checked. But the Usual Suspects are busy importing diversity and fucking up other people’s societies, as they always do. Manchester, NH now has a LOT of Africans (not American negroes, blacks obviously from Africa, and some from the Caribbean). I once even saw a Dinka man shuffling down Beech St downtown.
Closer to me, I’m seeing a bunch more Francophile African blacks around (“North Shore” towns near Boston). Not happy about that, but ironically they’ve generally been better behaved than American blacks. For now. The great replacement (totally a racist neonazi fantasy) isn’t only real, it’s been accelerating in both volume and geographic spread. Fuck.
Not Francophile. Francophone. Damn autocomplete.
As to the importing of Somalis: “Lemme get this straight. The people of Maine invited you into their collective home and generally treated you well. So you decided the way to show your appreciation was to invite a LOT of stupid, violent, and fundamentally non-assimilable morons into THEIR home?”
“The ones I know are themselves from Pakistan, but high IQ and all STEM professionals. ” Classic case of IKAGO. It doesn’t matter how ‘smart’ or ‘professional’ they supposedly are. They are not White. Their loyalties ALWAYS lie with their race and religion, not their economic status. They all need to go back.
It seems like that was Mike’s point, but I may be wrong.
Berglander is right about a lot of things. This instance is not an exception.
I like Commierado and even CPUSA (D) Plains HQ Kansas (EDU=Commie) but the east coast is on the list before the Great Leap Zimbabwe is completed under Barry’s fourth term.
Visit these places before CPUSA (D) RAT POS vermin fundamentally transform them.
Even visit the left coast before HWY 1 crumbles into the Pacific.
Si se puede!
That looks amazing!
Thanks for sharing the pics! I grew up in WNY.
Beautiful photos-thanks for sharing!